Device for operating elevated light-globes



(No Model.) I

J. F. BARKER. DEVICE FOR. OPERATING ELEVATED LIGHT GLOBES.

No. 423,895. I Patented Mar. 25, 1890. E 61.5.4 1

fladdwd S y v frame or body of the lamp. At the lower end UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. BARKER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR OPERATING ELEVATED LIGHT-GLOBES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,895, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed April 23, 1888. Renewed January 3, 1890- Serial No. 335.734. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN F. BARKER, of. Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Devices for Operating Elevated Light-Globes, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wl1ere Figure 1 is a View of a deviceembodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a View, from above, of the catch appurtenent to said device on an enlarged scale. 9

There is in use a lamp, oftenest used in the illumination of large roomssuch as halls and churches-which is like the lamp shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings with the exception of my improvement attached thereto. These lamps are usually elevated many feet above the floor of the room in which they are used, so that in lighting them a step-ladder has to be used.

' The object and purpose of my improvement, which is an addition or attachment to lamps of this general nature, is to obviate the necessity of using such aids to enable the person to light them while standing on the floor of the room.

The letter a denotes the main part of the thereof there is hinged a glass globe b, and the lamp proper, commonly the so-called regenerative gas-lamp, is within the globe. Of course the globe. is to be opened in order to get at the light, and usually, both to open the globe and to light the lamp, one must use a step-ladder.

The letter 0 denotes a rod by which the lamp is suspended from the ceiling. On this rod 0 is an annular seat 1, and over the rod is fitted the T-head or collar d, resting on the seat 1' and formed with the laterally-extended arm 2, at the end of which is mounted a pulley 6. Over this pulley I run a cord f, one end of which extends downward toward the floor of the room within reach of a person and the other end runs down and attaches to the globeframe g. This globe-frame is hinged at h to the lower part of the frame a. It will be readily understood that a downward pull on the cord f by a person standing upon the floor of the room will lift the globe to a closed position. To hold it in a closed position the cord f is provided with the stop Making under the catch j. This catch is shown in plan view in Fig. 2.

The globe being closed and unlighted, a person who wishes to light it seizes the cord f, moves it laterally until the stop t' is outside the catch j, when he can readily permit the globe b to fall and open. Then by means of a long lighter he can light the lamp. Then by pulling on the cord f he can close the globe and swing the stop i under the catch j.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the lamp-frame provided with a pulley-support at its upper end, carrying a pulley e and provided with a hinged globe b at its lower end, of a catch j, projected from the lamp, the cord f, arranged over the said pulley and having one end attached to the hinged globe of the lamp and the other end carried down and provided with a stop 1, arranged to engage the under side of the catch j on the lamp, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN F. BARKER.

\Vitnesses:

W. E. SIMoNDs, G. G. HADDONS. 

